Evidence Briefs consolidate the available scientific evidence on critical issues in immunization, providing concise insights for advocacy messaging.
Highlighting Global Issues and Immunization
The widespread benefits of immunization extend beyond individual health to address critical global challenges. Immunization plays an important role in protecting populations in the context of broader global issues such as climate change, conflict settings, and the rise of antibiotic-resistant microbes.
Gender Equity and Immunization
Gender equity and support for women and girls has a strong relationship with child health and access to immunization. Learn more about the latest research on the ways that immunization influences gender equity.
Immunization Economics: A Major Return on Investment
New economic analyses have shown that immunization supports more than health – vaccination can also have a significant return on investment and can help support national economies.
All Evidence Briefs
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Maternal Immunization: Protected Together
Maternal immunization is a promising strategy for protecting mothers, the developing fetus, and young infants during a particularly vulnerable time in their lives – especially in low- and middle-income countries where morbidity and mortality among women and their children is high. During pregnancy, vaccines allow antibodies from the mother to cross into the placenta, protecting…
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A Warming World Means Vaccination is More Important Than Ever
“The climate crisis threatens to undo the last fifty years of progress in development, global health, and poverty reduction, and […]
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Breaking the Barriers: How Gender Equity Advances Immunization
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated existing global gender inequities that impact the accessibility of immunizations to women and […]
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Why Rotavirus Vaccine Introduction in Nigeria is a Milestone for Child Health
In August 2022, Nigeria became the most recent country to introduce the rotavirus vaccine into its national immunization program. The […]
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Leaving No Child Behind: Zero-Dose and UHC
December 12th is recognized worldwide as Universal Health Coverage (UHC) day. Universal health coverage “ensures all people, everywhere, can get […]
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HPV Vaccines: New Momentum in Eliminating Cervical Cancer
In August of 2020, the World Health Assembly adopted the global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem. Vaccines against the human papillomavirus (HPV) can prevent the vast majority of the world’s 570,000 annual cases of cervical cancer. Increasing access to the HPV vaccine, as well as screening and…
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Possibilities: The Far-Reaching Benefits of Immunization
The story of immunization is often headlined with the remarkable health benefits—millions of lives saved, and illnesses and hospitalizations prevented. But the true impact of vaccination is even more far-reaching, touching many areas of people’s lives from supporting early childhood growth and development to improving educational outcomes and productivity, promoting economic stability, and helping to…
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World Immunization Week 2020 Social Media Toolkit
World Immunization Week 2020 (April 24-30) is an opportunity for immunization advocates across the world to promote the value of vaccines for protecting people of all ages against preventable diseases. Our VoICE social media toolkit provides messaging on the vital role that vaccines play in global health. Beyond saving millions of lives every year #VaccinesWork…
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Special edition: Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in the global fight against child pneumonia
Pneumonia is responsible for more than 800,000 under-5 deaths each year—claiming a child’s life every 39 seconds. Vaccines against pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), pertussis, measles, and influenza are important to help protect children from disease and prevent the lasting health, equity, and socioeconomic effects of pneumonia. This week, country leaders, scientific experts, program…
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Vaccination: Helping children think, learn and thrive
A healthy child is more likely to attend school, performs better in school and attends school for longer than a child who is often ill or has suffered permanent disabilities as a result of illness. In this Feature, VoICE explores how vaccine-preventable infections affect cognitive development and schooling, and highlights evidence of the effect vaccination…
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Vaccine-preventable Outbreaks: Becoming All Too Common and Costly
From Abuja to Atlanta, recent infectious disease outbreaks have all too commonly captured the regular news headlines. In this Featured Issue on vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks, the VoICE team goes past the headline, down to the fine print. We bring you an evidence-backed overview of vaccine-preventable infectious disease outbreaks worldwide, with a special focus on the…
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World Immunization Week 2019
Social Media Toolkit Using evidence for advocacy: Visit the 2019 World Immunization Week social media toolkit! Explore our messages, graphics, and […]
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Critical but complex: Vaccination during conflict and forced migration
Conflict and forced migration – resulting in disruption of communities and health systems – amplify the risk factors for infectious disease and increase the urgency of preventive measures such as immunization. While disease outbreaks of measles, cholera, meningitis and even polio in refugee camps may be the most widely covered issues related to immunization in…
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Universal Health Coverage: What immunization advocates should consider
December 12th is worldwide Universal Health Coverage (UHC) day! Although exceedingly complex in its implementation, the concept behind UHC is simple: All people should benefit from quality health services, medicines and vaccinations, and no one should be put in financial peril to do so. In recognition of UHC Day 2018, the VoICE team brings you…
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The Unyielding Impact of Childhood Diarrhea
Despite tremendous global progress, diarrhea remains the second leading infectious cause of under-5 deaths, taking a child’s life almost every minute. Although diarrhea can seem like a common, simple childhood ailment in many places, a single episode of diarrhea can be serious, even deadly, and have severe economic implications for families and communities. Advocates play…
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Gender Equity and Vaccines: an equal shot at health
Last month at the G7 meeting in Canada, global leaders met to consider gender equality, one of the 5 key themes Canada will advance during their tenure. Partners, experts and representatives in the immunization world echoed this emphasis on gender at the Global Immunization Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda just a few days ago. The issues…
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NEW RESEARCH CLIFF NOTES: Equity and Poverty Reduction Impact of Vaccines
In February 2018, Angela Chang and colleagues released a widely publicized study in Health Affairs estimating the death and economic impoverishment (due to medical expenses) that could be averted in 41 low-income nations through the use of 10 vaccine antigens from 2016-2030. Here, the VoICE team brings you “New Research Cliff Notes”, where we provide…